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Show us a better way update

By take21 | Published: February 26, 2009

The show us a better way competition, which invited proposals for better ways of communicating public information, reports back on the winning entries www.showusabetterway.com Lots of interesting mashups with public data. Sadly the Ordnance Survey only temporarily freed up data they control for use in the competition. Shortly afterwards “Ordnance Survey has emailed local government […]

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Public data mapping

By take21 | Published: August 7, 2008

Public data news The Guardian’s Free Our Data campaign is a good source for policy and legal developments in the use of public data. Usually covered in the Technology edition, web and print versions, on Thursdays. They also have a blog: freeourdata A recent Guardian piece by Michael Cross covers significant advances in freeing access […]

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